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The audacity. The NYT have been constantly supportive of more restrictions and barely asked a single journalistic question with regards to if they actually wor

The audacity. The NYT have been constantly supportive of more restrictions and barely asked a single journalistic question with regards to if they actually work and the impacts of them. “No Way To Grow Up”? You don’t say! Here’s a thought with less hot air than the NYT: If Covid doesn’t impact kids and the vaccine barely moves the needle on transmission, how about let them go to school, remove the masks, stop jabbing them etc and let them live a normal life. It’s disgusting what we have done to them and the US seems to be one of the worst offenders.

ModernMech 5y ago
This is a great idea and I fully support it. But I notice you didn’t say anything about teachers and the wider school community. There are many more people who are part of a school community than just children. As a teacher, I love the imagery of children just living their lives, free from the weight and realities of this pandemic. I can picture them in the classroom, eager to learn, raising their hands, playing in the playground. It warms my heart. But the flip side is that I can also picture the teachers and administrators. I see unmasked, unvaxxed, infected parents interacting directly with teachers. I see immunocompromised teachers dying. I also see their surviving coworkers unable to emotionally handle being in school, with little to no support. Remember, teachers are also simultaneously dealing with the threat of school shootings ever lurking in America. This may sound glib, but have you checked out the price of bullet proof armor? This is a thing teachers and students buy now, along with the other school supplies they buy out of their own pockets. Pens, check; notebook, check; bullet proof backpack, check. Ready for school! After two years of extra work, pay cuts, staffing shortages, budget cuts, dozens of school shootings, being screamed at by parents, being called traitors to America for teaching its history accurately, many are fed up with it. If this keeps up, you’re going to end up with Qanon believers teaching your kids. They’re sure that school shootings are staged by crisis actors, and covid isn’t even real, so they’re going to be the only ones left willing to apply for the job. Maybe that’s something you want, but I sure as hell don’t.

ModernMech 5y ago

This is a great idea and I fully support it. But I notice you didn’t say anything about teachers and the wider school community. There are many more people who are part of a school community than just children. As a teacher, I love the imagery of children just living their lives, free from the weight and realities of this pandemic. I can picture them in the classroom, eager to learn, raising their hands, playing in the playground. It warms my heart. But the flip side is that I can also picture the teachers and administrators. I see unmasked, unvaxxed, infected parents interacting directly with teachers. I see immunocompromised teachers dying. I also see their surviving coworkers unable to emotionally handle being in school, with little to no support. Remember, teachers are also simultaneously dealing with the threat of school shootings ever lurking in America. This may sound glib, but have you checked out the price of bullet proof armor? This is a thing teachers and students buy now, along with the other school supplies they buy out of their own pockets. Pens, check; notebook, check; bullet proof backpack, check. Ready for school! After two years of extra work, pay cuts, staffing shortages, budget cuts, dozens of school shootings, being screamed at by parents, being called traitors to America for teaching its history accurately, many are fed up with it. If this keeps up, you’re going to end up with Qanon believers teaching your kids. They’re sure that school shootings are staged by crisis actors, and covid isn’t even real, so they’re going to be the only ones left willing to apply for the job. Maybe that’s something you want, but I sure as hell don’t.